Top Tips for Transforming to a Software-Defined Cloud Infrastructure

Modern businesses need IT innovation and agility, but demand even greater efficiency. The recent Software Defined technology advances have made it possible for you to achieve both, but how do you build a transition plan that balances risk, existing operations, and a cloud future?

Join Jeff Olsen from EMC as he shares some practical tips to structure and deliver a successful Software Defined transition.

Hyper converged infrastructure is starting to become the new norm in the IT space as customers are seeking for a solution which will help them solve the three main challenges; cost reduction, providing agility to the business and simplify datacenter operations.

As we all know, technology alone cannot provide the full solution to the problem, that is why a new mode of operations is the key to maximize the full potential of a technology like; Hyper Converge.

In our session, we will discuss:
1. The new mode of operations?
2. What are the main benefits while adopting new team structures and new processes
3. Where to start

Splunk & Dell EMC will share insights into the challenges & opportunities customers are seeing in the market – with the ‘needs to’; reduce costs and improve efficiency within IT (operational analytics), improve Compliance (security analytics) & implement Shadow IT due to the business not receiving the right service from IT. CIO Priority is keeping the lights on and so on…

The technology landscape is moving at a fast pace and organisations are struggling to keep up and need to think of new ways of processing, analysing and getting value from the vast array of data sources now available.

Tune in to listen to a conversation between two technology experts who discuss the current challenges experienced in the big data industry and what tools and infrastructure are being deployed including Spark, Hadoop, Splunk etc. to get value from the massive amounts of data flowing around the globe!

This session discusses how and why organisations are moving to next generation Object Storage, the pros and cons of on and off premise, use cases including leveraging Hadoop integration, and what this mean to your business.

A lot of the focus with DevOps is on using new software development technics to develop, build, deploy and run the cloud native applications of the future in an agile way.This will be very important in the next years, but what should companies do with their legacy applications?

In this talk we will discuss how DevOps concepts and technology can be used for existing applications to simplify and accelerate build, deploy and run.

Organizations are experiencing unprecedented data growth - while data is geographically distributed, organizations are under pressure to provide global visibility and cost effective management for all unstructured data, regardless of the location. Enterprises with branch and regional offices are further challenged with dispersed islands of storage that are costly and inefficient, while being difficult to reliably maintain and protect.

Are you looking for a solution that will allow you to move fast and innovate quickly?

In our session, we will explain how you can implement a flexible and modular architecture that will meet the performance and efficiency requirements of traditional and cloud-native applications. How you can start with a small deployment, and then flexibly scale out to support dynamic workloads and evolving business needs.

From a recent IDC study; we will share with you the business value outcomes of using a Hyper Converged system along with the expected return of investment (ROI)

Organisations often struggle with a range of strategy, people, process and technology topics related to big data. Discover how to reduce data silos, derive insights from data, and deliver meaningful business outcomes for customers across a range of different use cases.

Organizations are experiencing unprecedented data growth - while data is geographically distributed, organizations are under pressure to provide global visibility and cost effective management for all unstructured data, regardless of the location. Enterprises with branch and regional offices are further challenged with dispersed islands of storage that are costly and inefficient, while being difficult to reliably maintain and protect.

Organizations are experiencing unprecedented data growth - while data is geographically distributed, organizations are under pressure to provide global visibility and cost effective management for all unstructured data, regardless of the location.

Enterprises with branch and regional offices are further challenged with dispersed islands of storage that are costly and inefficient, while being difficult to reliably maintain and protect.

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Digital transformation is on the agenda of every company and creates a new focus on agile software development. Join us to learn how platform as a service for software developers and operations (DevOps) transforms the underlying infrastructure cloud. We will cover the IT requirements and the important role of scale-out infrastructure, infrastructure as code and containers for such clouds.

Organisations are spoilt for choice when it comes to Big Data tools with current trends promoting Hadoop as a method of analysing vast amounts of stored unstructured data. Organisations are also increasingly looking towards tools which can monitor live feeds - e.g. Twitter - to perform actions in real time based on keywords. To perform this valuable analysis Spark has become the ecosystem of choice.

Join this session to uncover which tool to choose to improve the performance of your business.

Data is growing astronomically and the majority of the growth comes from unstructured data. Businesses are looking to leverage the cloud to cut costs, simplify IT management, or gain virtually limitless storage capacity.

The definition of IoT in Wikipedia starts with "The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of physical objects—devices, vehicles, buildings and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and network connectivity—that enables these objects to collect and exchange data.” But the data is collected because it contains a lot of value.

The two main challenges are how you store these huge datasets generated by IoT and how you simplify the process of extracting some value from them.

In this webcast, we’ll show why Object Storage becomes the de-facto standard and how EMC Elastic Cloud Storage’s (ECS) unique capabilities (to handle small objects, metadata search, …) can be leveraged in IoT use cases.

In 2020, Gartner expects that more than 30 billion devices will be connected to the Internet, generating 44 Zetabytes of data. The Internet of Things (IoT) and data analytics will affect almost all industries and should be an important part of the business strategy.

Using a smarter cities example, we’ll explain the analytics process and how it supports your business initiatives (from data to business decisions). We’ll illustrate why it is important to gather as much data as possible and how the data insight can help to answer relevant questions and to make informed decisions.

With that in mind, we’ll discuss how an appropriate storage and analytics infrastructure should look like and what the requirements are. Some key aspects: the cost of copying data, multi-protocol access, scalability, performance, availability, enterprise features, ease of use and others.